380 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [July, 1910] 



Mod. Pers. {lit. "long-bill"; a vague term); **Jb or tjk 

 ls*°>* yalva, or yalva-qushi , T. : ' vide J Fall. 



Wood-pecker, wjS' ;fj> dar-kub, Mod. Pers.: *j±x' Jcandara, Ind. 



Pers. MS. 

 Work, to, vide Fly. 



Worms, ij&y** &*jS Icirma-johlci , vulg. , Hindu and Ind. MS. (worms 



in the intestines). 

 Wren, vide Herd. 



Wrestle, &** <u-£J ^ fej* duchar u du-lashma shudan , Mod. Pers. 

 (to have a rough and tumble, as hawk and hubara on 

 ground) : vide also Clutch and Bind. 



Y 



Yarak (in hunting condition ; of short- winged hawks). [Yarak 

 is a term much used by English falconers in England. 

 Corballis in his Forty-Five Years of Sport (pp. 4 and 5), 

 published 1891, states that the bird was introduced by the 

 " late Mr. Barker." It is probably the Turkish word oy 

 or &jt. y ara( li which means simply " ready."] 



Yellow-eyed, vide Hawk. 



Young:, vide Sore-hawk. 



